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Wednesday, 13 January 2016

We cannot tell you how excited we are to bring you the Release Week Blitz for LOVE IN THE LIGHT by Laura Kaye! LOVE IN THE LIGHT is a novel told in dual POV and Part Two of her bestselling Hearts in Darkness Duet. This much anticipated follow-up is finally here! Make sure you grab your copy of this sexy novel today, and if you're new to the series you can grab the first novella HEARTS IN DARKNESS for just $.99 for a limited time!

About LOVE IN THE LIGHT (Hearts in Darkness Duet #2):Two hearts in the darkness…
Makenna James and Caden Grayson have been inseparable since the day they were trapped in a pitch-black elevator and found acceptance and love in the arms of a stranger. Makenna hopes that night put them on the path to forever—which can’t happen until she introduces her tattooed, pierced, and scarred boyfriend to her father and three over-protective brothers.
Must fight for love in the light…
Haunted by a childhood tragedy and the loss of his family, Caden never thought he’d find the love he shares with Makenna. But the deeper he falls, the more he fears the devastation sure to come if he ever lost her, too. When meeting her family doesn’t go smoothly, Caden questions whether Makenna deserves someone better, stronger, and just more…normal. Maybe they’re too different—and he’s far too damaged—after all…
Praise for LOVE IN THE LIGHT:
"Readers that have been anxiously waiting for more of this story will be thrilled with the passionate and poignant way Kaye dives back in with this complicated and much loved couple. Love in the Light will have readers falling in love with Caden and Makenna all over again!" ~ Jay Crownover, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Marked Men Series
"Sexy, emotional and incredibly heartwarming, fans of Laura Kaye won't be disappointed!" ~ Monica Murphy, New York Times Bestselling Author of the One Week Girlfriend Quartet
"Laura Kaye has a gift for writing beautifully damaged men and Caden Grayson leads the pack with enough vulnerability to twist your heart in knots." ~ Tessa Bailey, New York Times Bestselling Author of the Line of Duty Series
"This book delivers - sweet romance, smoking hot sex, an entire tissue box full of angsty drama, and such love shining off the pages that it will blind you." ~ Christi Barth, Author of the Shore Secrets Series
"This follow up to one of the most beloved couples in romance is delivered in the emotional and touching way that only Laura Kaye can do. Love in the Light is everything I could have wanted for Makenna and Caden--and more!" ~ Jillian Stein, Read-Love-Blog
Excerpt:

Makenna unbuttoned her jeans, pushed them down, and took them off altogether, leaving her standing there in an oversized, faded red and blue Penn sweatshirt that was just long enough to cover her panties. “You should get undressed, too,” she said, coming to Caden and starting on the buttons of his shirt.

Press and release, press and release. Until she was pulling his shirt from his dress pants and exposing his skin.

She gave a little moan and kissed the center of his chest. “Just like unwrapping a present.” She trailed a line of kisses and licks from one nipple to the other.

“Fuck, Makenna,” he whispered. “What are you doing?”

“Tasting you,” she said.

The words were like a blowtorch to his blood. He was hard in an instant. “We can’t,” he said, though his hands went to the back of her head, encouraging her, guiding her as she continued to kiss and tease and drive him wild with her mouth.

“We can if we’re quiet.” Slowly, she dropped to her knees and bared him to mid-thigh. She took his cock in hand and gripped him firmly, tearing a soft grunt from his throat. “I’ve been wanting you all day,” she whispered, her lips teasing his head with soft kisses. “Wanting to touch you and kiss you and hold you. I can’t hold back anymore.” She licked him from root to tip. Once, twice, three times. And then she sucked him into her mouth.

It felt so fucking good that Caden’s hands flew to her hair, digging in, grabbing hold. She moaned at the contact and pushed herself deeper, burying his cock in the back of her throat. The intensity of it nearly took his knees out from underneath of him.

Makenna pulled off his length. “Lay down on the floor.”

He was too far gone to debate the wisdom of having sex in her father’s house. He needed this. He needed her. He needed the connection and the coming together of the act. Caden locked the door, took the rest of his clothes off, and spread himself out on the beige carpet.

She undressed, too, all that beautiful red hair spilling around the bare porcelain of her shoulders and making him think of peaches and cream. And, fuck, he was starving.

Caden grasped his length. “Take me back in your mouth.”

He didn’t have to ask twice. Makenna settled herself between his legs and wrapped her lips around his cock. She sucked him deep and slow, than fast and shallow, her baby blues flashing up at him so fucking sexy. He needed to see her eyes, so he fisted her hair into a ponytail to keep it out of her face. He used his grip to urge her harder, faster, deeper. He needed it. God, he needed it. And she took it. She took everything he gave her and so much more.

“Fuck, Red, I’m gonna come if you don’t stop,” he whispered.

She pulled off him, her lips shiny and swollen. “I want you inside me first,” she said, already crawling up his body.

About Laura Kaye:
Laura is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over twenty books in contemporary and paranormal romance and romantic suspense. Growing up, Laura’s large extended family believed in the supernatural, and family lore involving angels, ghosts, and evil-eye curses cemented in Laura a life-long fascination with storytelling and all things paranormal. She lives in Maryland with her husband, two daughters, and cute-but-bad dog, and appreciates her view of the Chesapeake Bay every day.

Monday, 11 January 2016

By 1895, Britain’s Home Department was interested in using finger
prints to identify criminals. Francis Galton soon realized that lifting prints
was not the hard task. MATCHING was the problem. Thus, he began searching for a
method to categorize prints so they could be readily matched to the print
lifted (if it existed in their collection of prints).

While Galton was not the only one working on this problem, in
1895, his methodology was chosen to categorize the prints of the criminals in
London.

First, known criminals were fingerprinted by going to the
prisons.

The imprint of all ten digits were taken on paper or
cardboard using common printer’s ink. These prints could then be examined with
a magnifying glass, a microscope, or enlarged for greater detail by the use of
photography.

Galton suspected that for each individual, their patterns
remained through their entire life and appeared to be individually unique from
all other and did not alter. (Galton would NOT state categorically they were
unique, but he had not found a single case in which two people had identical prints.
However, there was one case in a child’s print altered. A small bifurcation
occurred somewhere between twelve and fifteen, thus altering his print.) Galton
calculated the chances of two finger prints being exactly the same were 1 in
64,000,000,000. If three of the finger’s prints were taken and matched to a
card on file, there was NO possibility they had identified the person
incorrectly.

However, matching fingerprints to a stack of cards proved
impossible until Galton created a method or classification that reduced the
time searching for a match. Galton
classified fingerprints in three categories: arches, loops, and whorls.

Galton then further classified the other print details to
assist in finding the exact one needed. He likened it to a directory of home
addresses. First, you locate the street, then you identify the block, and
finally you identify the unique number of the house.

And while taking and later reading fingerprints was a skill
that required training, Galton believed it to be a teachable skill. And thus,
it was adopted by Scotland Yard to assist in finding criminals.

In my novel, The Darkest Days, the highly educated and well
connected young officer, Barns, has read up on fingerprinting and wishes to use
it when he becomes the Director of Scotland Yard. Xavier advises him to instead
bring the matter to the current Director of Scotland Yard, since Barns has many
years before he should be leading anything. Then Vic tells him that Argentina has
been catching criminals with the use of finger prints for years, so if he waits
until he’s in charge of Scotland Yard, he’ll be far behind.

So Barns
follows Xavier’s advice and discovers Director Stone knows all about Galton’s
finger printing, and has only been waiting for him to establish the sorting of
the prints for quick identification.

Impressed by
the young man’s knowledge of fingerprinting, Stone puts him in charge of the
implementation into Scotland Yard.

When the pot has too many cooks a feast
can be ruined, and that’s exactly what happens with Xavier and Vic’s new cases.
Each proves more complicated than initially thought with criminals dropping out
of the sky, wreaking havoc upon Xavier, Vic, and their excellent employees. By
the end, Vic threatens to open a school that teaches criminals how to stay out
of each other’s way.

Worse yet, a treasured member of the staff
is shot in the heart while attempting to save Vic and the Queen’s cousin.

Liza O’Connor was raised badly by feral cats,
left the South/Midwest and wandered off to find nicer people on the east coast.
There she worked for the meanest man on Wall Street, while her psychotic
husband tried to kill her three times. (So much for finding nicer people.) Then
one day she declared enough, got a better job, divorced her husband, and fell
in love with her new life where people behaved nicely. But all those bad
behaviors has given her lots of fodder for her humorous books. Please buy these
books, because otherwise, she’ll become grumpy and write troubled novels
instead. They will likely traumatize you.

You have been warned.

Mostly humorous books
by Liza:

Ghost Lover—Two British brothers fall in love with the
same young woman. Ancestral ghost is called in to fix the situation. And
there’s a ghost cat that roams about the book as well. (Humorous Contemporary
Romance)

Saving Casey— Cass wakes up in the body of a troubled teen
who has burned every bridge imaginable. Her only choice is to turn this life
around, but that’s much harder than she ever imagined.

The Missing Partner — Opps! The greatest sleuth in Victorian
England goes missing, leaving Vic to rescue him, a suffragette, and about 100
servants. Not to mention an eviscerating cat. Yes, let’s not mention the cat.

A Right to Love— A romantic detour for Jacko. Want
to see how amply rewarded Jacko was when he & Vic save an old woman from
Bedlam?

The Mesmerist— The Mesmerist can control people from afar and make them murder for
her. Worse yet, Xavier Thorn has fallen under her spell.

Well Kept Secrets— The problems with secrets is that they always come to
light, no matter how you wish to silence them.

Pack of Trouble— Changes are a part of life, but these changes almost kill
Vic.